# Sadako

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**Sadako** is a [Japanese name](/source/Japanese_name), commonly used for women. The same name can be written with a variety of [kanji](/source/Kanji), and the meanings of the name differ accordingly:[1]

- [貞](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%B2%9E)[子](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%AD%90), "chaste child"; the same characters can also be read as a Korean female given name, [Jeong-ja](/source/Jeong-ja)
- [節](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%AF%80)[子](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%AD%90), "child of integrity"

## People with the name

- [Fujiwara no Teishi](/source/Fujiwara_no_Teishi) (藤原 定子, 977–1001), empress consort of the Japanese [Emperor Ichijō](/source/Emperor_Ichij%C5%8D).
- Princess Sadako Kujō (九条 節子), later [Empress Teimei](/source/Empress_Teimei) (貞明皇后) of Japan (1884–1951), wife of [Emperor Taishō](/source/Emperor_Taish%C5%8D)
- [Sadako Kurihara](/source/Sadako_Kurihara) (栗原 貞子, 1913–2005), Japanese poet
- [Sadako Moriguchi](/source/Sadako_Moriguchi) (森口 貞子, 1907–2002), American businesswoman
- [Sadako Ogata](/source/Sadako_Ogata) (緒方 貞子, 1927–2019), Japanese scholar and United Nations administrator
- [Sadako Pointer](/source/Sadako_Pointer) (born 1984), American singer
- [Sadako Sasaki](/source/Sadako_Sasaki) (佐々木 禎子, 1943–1955), a childhood [Hiroshima atomic bomb](/source/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki) victim, who made [origami](/source/Origami) cranes based on a legend about their healing properties, making them an international symbol for peace.
- [Sadako Sawamura](/source/Sadako_Sawamura) (沢村 貞子, 1908–1996), Japanese actress
- [Toyotomi Sadako](/source/Toyotomi_Sadako) (豊臣 完子, 1592–1658), Japanese noble woman
- [Sadako Yamamoto](/source/Sadako_Yamamoto) (山本 定子, born 1915), Japanese javelin thrower
- [Sadako Yamashita](/source/Sadako_Yamashita) (山下 貞子, born 1932), Japanese swimmer

## Entertainment

- [Sadako Yamamura](/source/Sadako_Yamamura) (山村 貞子), fictional character in the Japanese novel, manga and film franchise *[Ring](/source/The_Ring_(franchise))*
- [*Sadako* (film)](/source/Sadako_(film)), 2019 film in the *Ring* franchise

## References

1. Breen, Jim (2011). [*Japanese Names Dictionary*](https://web.archive.org/web/20121205062302/http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi). Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Archived from [the original](http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi) on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2012-12-02.

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